Chapter 133 – Ep.8 – A Sister’s Story (1)
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Another sad day ends,
The three of them start walking again.
“Huh, huh… “
But today Neva’s breathing is rough.
Strangely, quite strong monsters attacked them today, and Neva defeated them well even with Delrin and Eva on her back…
“Whoa… It’s okay. Are you okay.”
Having already fended off her third raid, she is visibly complaining of her weariness.
“It seems that the monsters who were expelled because of the dragon are returning. I lost my strength needlessly because a group of fairly strong guys came at me, but this much is not a big deal… “
Delrin’s eyes wide open as she gazes at the myriad corpses littering the back of the Neva.
She knows him too Even as she walks all day with herself and her Eva on her back, she is able to fend off fearsome things that come towards them. It’s that strong.
However, there is a limit to human physical strength.
There are limits even to her who fights while protecting the two of her. Even though she is the leader of the kingdom’s knights, she is also just a person.
So someday you’ll get tired
If that happens, it will probably all end.
Over,
Back to the old days…
“… “
… Delrin suddenly feels ominous as Neva, who had been muttering her old stories, suddenly shuts up.
I am walking as usual, but for some reason it feels like I am not getting any speed. Corpses seldom disappear from sight.
“… “
And, Gearko Neva’s footsteps stopped.
She no longer walks
Delrin struggles to turn her tied head and examines the back of her head, but all she sees is her beautiful silver hair.
“… “
Neva stopped her words, and she started walking in a different direction than she had been walking before.
She didn’t quite understand why she turned her steps around, but Delrin thought it was very ominous and wriggled her body and called out to Neva.
“Town! Ugh!”
“… “
Even so, Neva didn’t even reply and moved her steps in silence. Instead of heading south, she started moving into the mountains.
There is no reason to ride over the mountain, so that option is a really stupid and stupid option. A strange choice with no reason to choose.
Nevertheless, Neva headed for the mountain with her two men and women on her back.
“Huh, uh… “
What that action means is simple.
Neva has given up on her descent to the south.
She won’t go to God’s Garden.
I don’t know where the Neva is headed,
Delrin can’t scream at her and can’t get away, so she’s just being carried to her, tied to her.
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Neva, like a madman, wanted to climb the mountain aimlessly, but she found a small cave that seemed to be difficult to find.
“Ugh! Huh… “
“Hey! Suck… “
The narrow cave hidden by the trees was a place where no traces of humans or dwarves could be seen.
It wasn’t a very deep and long cave, so bears and wolves could rest for a night or so.
For Neva, it was rather a great hiding place.
“… “
Neva bit her lip and set the two of them down on the cave floor. There were a few worms hiding, but they ran away soon as if they felt the Neva’s mana, so there were only three of them in the cave.
“Whoa… “
She throws off her armor one by one. At the attitude that feels quite nervous, Delrin and Eva tremble and look at Neva.
A dark cloud hangs over Neva’s face. She stares at the armor she has thrown off and thinks of something, but she has no idea what she is thinking at all.
“… I can’t go on like this. So it is.”
Neva muttered as if making an excuse. The words were directed at her Delrin, but also an excuse for her towards God who might be watching her.
“I can’t help it. This is for the best.”
Kwadeuk-
The glove on her left hand, which had been clinging to her body until the end, was slammed to the floor.
The sound echoed through the small cave. Eva flinched in surprise at the sudden burst, but Delrin couldn’t afford to be surprised, shocked by Neva’s utterances.
“Ugh! Ugh!”
Delrin huffed and puffed, as if demanding her explanation. However, what came back was only Neva’s gaze, not an answer.
“Didn’t you say you couldn’t help it?”
Neva seemed angry. She was the first to see bloodshot eyes on her fair face. Neva was so agitated that as she strode her stride at Delrin, she snarled as if to vent her rage.
“It can’t be helped! Give up! I can’t go! Fuck, fuck fuck fuck… ! I can’t go! I can’t go!”
Delrin and Eva,
When she sees the knight she is seeing for the first time, she is quite taken aback and steps back. She’s backwards, so to speak, using her hips and legs to squirm behind her a bit.
“You don’t even have to go anywhere! The three of us can live well!”
Neva lifted Delrin, who was thus trying to move away from behind her, and she screamed in his face.
“I was thinking of loading it!? I know everything! Yeah, I guess I was going to load up and go back to them when I collapse from exhaustion. Clearly!”
The little cave rang loudly.
After that, it remained silent for a while, but the cave moaned incessantly at all kinds of disturbing sounds that replaced the angry voices.
The sound of grinding teeth, the sound of trembling in fear, the sound of groaning in fear…
“… “
And the silence that followed.
Even though we do not open our mouths to each other,
A time when more things come and go than talk.
Neva looks into Delrin’s eyes with those blue eyes. He’s terrified, he’s in tears…
“Sigh, sigh… “
“… “
On the one hand, he is sending a sorrowful gaze that is difficult to describe. It’s as if I sympathize with her, but I also feel like she’s deeply disappointed, and it seems like she’s about to give up…
“… “
Neva glared at him for a moment, then put him down again on the cave floor.
“I will live here. Even if you don’t save, you’ll live here for the rest of your life. You don’t even need God’s Garden. Because I can feed them all. For the three of us, we don’t need anything else.”
Neva’s voice brings a sense of composure once again. However, the words he utters with that composure are the only ones that make Delrin and Eva suffer.
“Hey, breath… Heck… “
Eventually, Eva breaks down her cry. It must have been the explosion of the strange words her own sister uttered and the stress accumulated from the journey so far.
However, her little brother’s crying rather provokes Neva again, causing her to shout passionately at the two.
“Shut up shut up! Why are you crying, why! I’ll do everything! They say they do it all! Her sister protects her, huh? Look at my sister Eva, look at your sister. Look! Look!”
“Hey… ! Suck!”
“I will protect you! What the hell are you both complaining about, huh? I… ! Because I will protect you!”
Condensed anger spurts out of Neva’s eyes as if they were on fire. Neva’s nervousness, which should be expressed as desperate, drives Delrin and Eva inside the cave wall and drives without rest.
“What the hell is wrong with you! Why do I have to be so hard every time! What on earth are you complaining about, what! Why are you all looking at me like that!”
The graceful and neat face of the female knight distorted. Since she was born, she screams at the two of them in such a way that one wonders if she has ever been so angry.
However, humans do not always show only one side. They always change while being swayed here and there…
“Hey, heh…ぅ… “
Neva’s anger also fades, and sadness comes this time. Her angry face turned red, and her tears poured out.
A shiver of sadness,
A shiver of solitude flows down.
One hand steals sorrow and loneliness,
Her hand soothes her own flushed face.
“Why me… “
Neva wanted to sit down and cry like a child right away, but her legs trained to become a knight never sit down.
Standing on the ground on her straight legs, and standing tall like that, she shed one last tear as she looked at the mouths of Delrin and Eva she had blocked.
She slowly walks over to them and hugs them both.
“God, God… Ah, god… Please have mercy on me too. Please… Please have mercy for me who cannot go to your garden… “
A prayer to God flows from her pierced mouth. The prayer to Fenola, the god of light and mercy, eventually becomes weeping, which in turn becomes prayer.
“Please please… Eva, please don’t abandon her sister… Delrin, Delrin… ? Please, why are you looking at me like that, why… “
The more I try to protect you, the farther away
The more you want to have it, the more you leave.
Neva resents the path she has walked. She has no honor, no power, no beauty, but she doesn’t have the two things she wants.
“Hee, hee, uh… “
Crying is heard in her ears. She wasn’t crying herself, but a cry from a smaller, younger being…
“Stop it… Sister… I’m scared… “
Eva, whose rags have bounced off her mouth from Neva’s fuss, struggles to get her words out of her mouth, which is red and scarred from being clamped so tightly.
“Sister, sister… “
Neva tried to close her sister’s mouth again, but she finally withdrew her hand as she saw the wound on her mouth.
Finally, both sisters’ mouths opened…
